TY - JOUR
T1 - Gaze behaviors during serve returns in tennis
T2 - A comparison between intermediate- and high-skill players
AU - Sáenz-Moncaleano, Camilo
AU - Basevitch, Itay
AU - Tenenbaum, Gershon
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Human Kinetics, Inc.
PY - 2018/4/1
Y1 - 2018/4/1
N2 - The authors studied gaze behaviors in high- and intermediate-skill tennis players while they performed tennis serve returns. Participants returned 40 serves in 4 serve locations while wearing a mobile eye tracker. The ball's flight path was deconstructed into 3 distinct locations (i.e., ball before bouncing on surface, the bounce area, and ball after bouncing on surface), and gaze behaviors along with quiet-eye (QE) onset and durations were recorded. Results revealed that (a) high-skill players exhibited better return shots than their lower skill counterparts, (b) high-skill players and high-score shots were characterized by longer fixation durations on the ball at prebounce, and (c) longer QE durations were observed for high-skill players and high-score shots. Findings provide valuable insight into the relationship between gaze behaviors, QE, and performance in fast-pace interceptive sports.
AB - The authors studied gaze behaviors in high- and intermediate-skill tennis players while they performed tennis serve returns. Participants returned 40 serves in 4 serve locations while wearing a mobile eye tracker. The ball's flight path was deconstructed into 3 distinct locations (i.e., ball before bouncing on surface, the bounce area, and ball after bouncing on surface), and gaze behaviors along with quiet-eye (QE) onset and durations were recorded. Results revealed that (a) high-skill players exhibited better return shots than their lower skill counterparts, (b) high-skill players and high-score shots were characterized by longer fixation durations on the ball at prebounce, and (c) longer QE durations were observed for high-skill players and high-score shots. Findings provide valuable insight into the relationship between gaze behaviors, QE, and performance in fast-pace interceptive sports.
KW - Expertise
KW - Movement initiation
KW - Quiet eye
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U2 - 10.1123/jsep.2017-0253
DO - 10.1123/jsep.2017-0253
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C2 - 29785858
AN - SCOPUS:85049527998
SN - 0895-2779
VL - 40
SP - 49
EP - 59
JO - Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology
JF - Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology
IS - 2
ER -